Edward Bennis and Co

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July 1895. The Westminster Engine, Bennis, Bolton.

Bennis ’Westminster’ engine at Claymills Victorian Pumping Station

June 1898.

1899.

February 1901.

1902.

January 1902.

1903.

1906.

1917.

1918.

1918.

January 1919.

1920.

1926.

December 1929.

1930.

of Bolton, Manchester, London and Glasgow.

of Little Hulton, Deansgate, Bolton.

of 28 Victoria Street, London SW.

of Lancashire Stoker Wks., Bolton

1870 Mr. Edward Bennis joined Mr. Dillwyn Smith, of Philadelphia, and established works to develop the sprinkler type of mechanical stoker. This was followed by a self-cleaning compressed air furnace and a commercial stoker and furnace

1875 Bennis gained a patent on a mechanical stoker.

1879 Company founded

1887 Bennis brought a legal case against James Proctor for infringement of his patent on mechanical stoker; judgement against Bennis but granted leave to appeal.

1888 Proctor's case to defend his patent was upheld.

1893 Smelter Joseph Young bought a partnership in the business and later became MD.

1897 June 8th A letter was sent to Joseph Thomas Elrington, who was Foreman Pattern Maker, from Herbert Barlow, who had been with the company for two years. It was a reference to aid his future employment since Joseph (Tom) Elrington apparently sustained an eye injury from a wood splinter and was unable to continue in his job.

1911 Electrical Exhibition. Complete coal and ash handling plant.

1911 Catalogue on stokers of the sprinkler type; stokers of the coking type; chaingrate stokers and self-cleaning furnaces for colliery waste.

1917 Advert. Mechanical stokers.

1926 Mr J. G. McLean was no longer in their service.

1935 Became public company. See Bennis Combustion Ltd.

See Also

• 1922 Who's Who In Engineering: Company B
• 1931 Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition
• Alfred William Bennis
• Bennis Combustion
• Bennis and Co
• E. Bennis and Co
• Edward Bennis
• Edward Charles Reed
• Engineering 1905 Jan-Jun: Index: Directory of Advertisers
• Engineering 1907 Jul-Dec: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• Engineering 1914 Jan-Jun: Index: Addresses of Advertisers
• John Robert Hannan
• Joseph David Smith
• Smelter Joseph Young
• The Basic Industries of Great Britain by Aberconway: Chapter IX: Part 1
• The Engineer 1891/01/30
• The Engineer 1900/06/29
• The Engineer 1902/07/04
• The Engineer 1905/01/13
• The Engineer 1905/07/07
• The Engineer 1905/07/21
• The Engineer 1905/09/08
• The Engineer 1906/05/04
• The Engineer 1908/04/24
• The Engineer 1908/09/18
• The Engineer 1908/12/25
• The Engineer 1909/05/21
• The Engineer 1909/05/28
• The Engineer 1911/09/29
• The Engineer 1914/06/26
• The Engineer 1914/10/09
• The Engineer 1916/11/10
• The Engineer 1917/07/13
• The Engineer 1917/08/03
• The Engineer 1918/03/29
• The Engineer 1919/07/25
• The Engineer 1921/11/25
• The Engineer 1921/12/02
• The Engineer 1922/08/18
• The Engineer 1923/06/15
• The Engineer 1924/12/19
• The Engineer 1925/12/11
• The Engineer 1925 Jul-Dec: Index: Shipbuilding, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition
• The Engineer 1926/09/17
• The Engineer 1927 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1930 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1931/07/10
• The Engineer 1931/09/11
• The Engineer 1931 Jul-Dec: Index
• The Engineer 1933 Jan-Jun: Index
• The Engineer 1933 Jul-Dec: Index
• Thomas Owen (1870-1949)
• Wilfred Morley Ratcliffe